Tulane is more like ULL academically than it is to Harvard.

You are hilarious! UL-L is a tier two academic school. La Tech and LSU A&M are tier one but Tulane is by far the top academic university in Louisiana ranked number 52 in the nation with a worldwide reputation and top research reputation by US News and World Report which all top academic inclined high school seniors applying to top universities follow.

who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

(01-26-2014 05:05 PM)Savacool Wrote:  You are hilarious! UL-L is a tier two academic school. La Tech and LSU A&M are tier one but Tulane is by far the top academic university in Louisiana ranked number 52 in the nation with a worldwide reputation and top research reputation by US News and World Report which all top academic inclined high school seniors applying to top universities follow.

Louisiana May be Tier 2 under USN&WR, but it is a Top 377 university by Princeton Review (only LSU, Tulane and Louisiana in the state), is a Rockefeller Institute of Government Top 100 public research university, is a Top 10 Fastest Growing R&D universities in the US, and is a Carnegie Nationally Ranked Research University with a RU/H rating. UL's Endowment and it's Research are more than double all UL System schools combined (includes LA Tech and ULM). Our enrollment is more than LA Tech and ULM combined. USN&WR is a subjective ranking based on ridiculous criteria such as number of alumni contributing, student satisfaction on campus, etc. Even Tulane was accused of falsifying information to USN&WR. However, it does carry a lot of perception and we are on the cusp of attaining it. We are also close to achieving Doctoral I standing which is much more significant than USN&WR Tier 1. The Lafayette area has just surpassed Shreveport as the 3rd largest in Louisiana. It is the fastest growing city and wealthiest city in the state. The university is spending over $500M on campus construction and renovations and over $125M in athletic improvements enlarging our football stadium to 50,000 plus many other facility upgrades. At the same time, Tulane is building a 26,000 seat stadium for the future. No one disputes Tulane's academic standing. Few schools can match yours. Don't distort ours. Why do you care and keep posting this false and misleading crap about UL? As Bearcats#1 just posted "who gives a crap...if they want to be University of Louisiana, what's it to anybody else?". And remember, Louisiana is an athletic reference only.

Louisiana it is.

:cogs:Savacool is still butthurt because they lost to us again. Dude just let it go. Enjoy your new conference. We'll be by to beat you again next year in your new stadium.

(01-26-2014 05:05 PM)Savacool Wrote:  You are hilarious! UL-L is a tier two academic school. La Tech and LSU A&M are tier one but Tulane is by far the top academic university in Louisiana ranked number 52 in the nation with a worldwide reputation and top research reputation by US News and World Report which all top academic inclined high school seniors applying to top universities follow.

It sounds more like you're trying to convince yourself of Tulane's worth than anybody else.

And to think we could be stuck with Tulane in the SEC. There is a God and She is kind.

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

(01-27-2014 10:58 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

(01-27-2014 02:07 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 10:58 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

We are not supposed to be co-equals any more than Texas at Austin and Texas at Arlington are equal. ULM may share the name, but they are a small regional university with less than 8,000 enrollment barely kept alive by the state budget. It is not written anywhere that flagship status is a requirement. Texas State is not a flagship school, yet has a name similar to Ohio State or Louisiana State. Doesn't seem to bother Texas or Texas A&M. We are the largest university in the UL System, the fastest growing, the largest alumni base, and the largest endowment and research foundation (2 to 1 over all other universities combined). Use of Louisiana without "University of" is legal and the UL System president said she had no problems with it. So, if our own System has no problem with it, why would a private university like Tulane or even out of state universities care what we call ourselves? Ever notice that schools that shorten their names for branding do so without using "University of" or "State University"? Examples are Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology), Fresno State (Cal State University at Fresno), Nevada (Nevada Reno), etc., etc. Like those universities, our official name (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) has not changed. It is just shortened to LOUISIANA (without "University of") for athletic branding purposes.

This thread is an absolute embarrassment.

Can this thing get deleted? Not all Tulane fans have this kind of opinion, anyhow...

(01-27-2014 02:36 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  This thread is an absolute embarrassment.

Can this thing get deleted? Not all Tulane fans have this kind of opinion, anyhow...

Better here than the Sun Belt board.

I'm glad Savacool is just making himself look like the idiot he really is. It's funny that all of the level-headed posters on here are the ones saying, "Who cares? Call them Louisiana if that's what they want to be called."

We ARE Louisiana. Geaux Cajuns! By the way, Baseball America just released its Preseason Top 25.... Ragin' Cajuns come in at #14. Right behind LSU, and guess where Tulane, La Tech, and ULM are? Nowhere to be found. Like I said, we ARE Louisiana.

(01-27-2014 02:36 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  This thread is an absolute embarrassment.

Can this thing get deleted? Not all Tulane fans have this kind of opinion, anyhow...

Just had to get correct information out there after what is always erroneously posted by Savacool, a Tulane alum. I agree, time to shut this down. Nothing more to be said.

(01-27-2014 10:58 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. WRONG! They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

The Board of Regents which is the governing body of all public institutions in Louisiana states otherwise. Link provided.


http://regents.louisiana.gov/wp-content/...1_1027.pdf

(01-27-2014 02:35 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 02:07 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 10:58 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

We are not supposed to be co-equals any more than Texas at Austin and Texas at Arlington are equal. ULM may share the name, but they are a small regional university with less than 8,000 enrollment barely kept alive by the state budget. It is not written anywhere that flagship status is a requirement. Texas State is not a flagship school, yet has a name similar to Ohio State or Louisiana State. Doesn't seem to bother Texas or Texas A&M. We are the largest university in the UL System, the fastest growing, the largest alumni base, and the largest endowment and research foundation (2 to 1 over all other universities combined). Use of Louisiana without "University of" is legal and the UL System president said she had no problems with it. So, if our own System has no problem with it, why would a private university like Tulane or even out of state universities care what we call ourselves? Ever notice that schools that shorten their names for branding do so without using "University of" or "State University"? Examples are Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology), Fresno State (Cal State University at Fresno), Nevada (Nevada Reno), etc., etc. Like those universities, our official name (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) has not changed. It is just shortened to LOUISIANA (without "University of") for athletic branding purposes.

Bad examples. Txst is a bad example because number one that is their name number 2 they are the flagship of the tsu system. They are not part of the a&m or ut systems so why would either ut or a&m care. Trying to brand as Louisiana is equivalent of Fresno state trying to rebrand as cal state. Do u think that would fly. Answer: no. There is no univ of Louisiana and u know as well as I do that is the false perception trying to be created. Thus why ulm and later tech are so against it.

Honest question to UL-L fans. Why do you hate your own initials so much. Those are your initials after all. I've never seen a university hate their own initials so much. Embrace them. They are yours and no one else's.

The Tulane Tyrants would muzzle free speech!

"Lousiana" = Liberty!

Love live Louisiana! Poop on Tulane!

(01-27-2014 08:48 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 02:35 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 02:07 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 10:58 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(01-26-2014 05:33 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  who gives a crap...if they want to be Univ. of Louisiana what's to anybody else?

Because their state law forbids it. There is no U of Louisiana. UL-L and ULM are supposed to be co equals. They say that they are just branding their team athletically as "Louisiana", just like the University of Texas at Austin brands their teams as "Texas". One flaw with that theory though. Texas is actually the flagship university of the UT system. UL-L is not a flagship universtity. Other than that, don't care.

We are not supposed to be co-equals any more than Texas at Austin and Texas at Arlington are equal. ULM may share the name, but they are a small regional university with less than 8,000 enrollment barely kept alive by the state budget. It is not written anywhere that flagship status is a requirement. Texas State is not a flagship school, yet has a name similar to Ohio State or Louisiana State. Doesn't seem to bother Texas or Texas A&M. We are the largest university in the UL System, the fastest growing, the largest alumni base, and the largest endowment and research foundation (2 to 1 over all other universities combined). Use of Louisiana without "University of" is legal and the UL System president said she had no problems with it. So, if our own System has no problem with it, why would a private university like Tulane or even out of state universities care what we call ourselves? Ever notice that schools that shorten their names for branding do so without using "University of" or "State University"? Examples are Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology), Fresno State (Cal State University at Fresno), Nevada (Nevada Reno), etc., etc. Like those universities, our official name (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) has not changed. It is just shortened to LOUISIANA (without "University of") for athletic branding purposes.

Bad examples. Txst is a bad example because number one that is their name number 2 they are the flagship of the tsu system. They are not part of the a&m or ut systems so why would either ut or a&m care. Trying to brand as Louisiana is equivalent of Fresno state trying to rebrand as cal state. Do u think that would fly. Answer: no. There is no univ of Louisiana and u know as well as I do that is the false perception trying to be created. Thus why ulm and later tech are so against it.

You are incorrect. The Texas State University System has no flagship university. Texas State just carries the name. Similarly, the University of Louisiana System has no flagship. We are also not part of the LSU System. The Nevada System of Higher Education has among other schools Nevada Reno and Nevada Las Vegas. There is no flagship. Nevada Reno branded itself as Nevada a few years ago while Nevada Las Vegas branded itself as UNLV. Similarly, Louisiana Monroe branded itself as ULM and Louisiana Lafayette branded itself as Louisiana. ULM and LA Tech can voice all the objections they want. They are more interested in stifling our growth than furthering theirs, at least that is true for ULM. They see what we are doing, how we are growing, the area we are located in, the wealth in our area that we are finally tapping into, and don't want us to succeed. Too late. Our former dinosaur president who would not support athletics retired and our new president is transforming our university. The sky is the limit and we have big time ambitions and are on a fast track to get there. I am not going to continue debating this. Accept it or not. Your choice. We are LOUISIANA.